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This Blog is focused on Microsoft CRM. It specalizes in news for CRM partners and customers, customization tools for demos and local events in the Microsoft East Region.

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  • Welcome to the Mid-Atlantic CRM Blog, formerly owned and operated by Ben Vollmer, a CRM legend ;). My name is Chris Kahl and Ben has asked me to take over the care and feeding of this most valuable resource. Like Ben, my job is to help partners and customers with Microsoft CRM in the Eastern US. This blog is a great and searchable information source. Feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed to stay current with Dynamics CRM. Any tools discussed here are for DEMO only. You should NOT use these in a production environment unless you test them. Microsoft Support DOES NOT support these tools. Everything here is provided as-is with no warranty.

February 2007 - Posts

Some of the new toys I have been playing with...
This post is NOT CRM related at all. Sorry. But here are some cool tools I have been playing with recently that I recommend you check out. :-) Windows Live Search Mobile. This app is WAY cool. Saves my bacon at least once a day. I wish it also did regular Read More...
The CIO Weblog: salesforce.com will be acquired in 2007 - IDC
Interesting article, that points to a post from IDC. 2007 will be a year of intense "hyperdisruption" in the IT industry, with major structural changes taking place along different industry vectors at once — all interacting with each other and, more important, Read More...
Getting your hands on Virtual PC 2007
I know... It seems like all of this week's posts are about VPC... Well I have been doing a bunch of work with VPC recently, so yeah, there are going to be some Virtual PC posts for the next couple of weeks. :-) If you are running Vista, you will notice Read More...
Need to Speed up your VPC?
So we just went through a normal hardware refresh and as a result, I am the proud owner of two new HP nc8430 machines. One of the coolest features that these machines have is a built in SD Card Reader. With that SC Card Reader and a 4 GB SD Card, I have Read More...
VPC Workshop - Reston and Atlanta
This past week there was a VPC workshop for partners in Atlanta and next week there is one in Reston. The one in Atlanta was done by Susan Sauls (who I need to get an intro blog post up on....) and Todd Baana. (Todd is the first guy in the green shirt Read More...
Creating a Unique Number in Microsoft CRM
The SDK has an example that shows you using a Post Call Out you to create a unique identifier for each new contact record. So the GUID can be replaced with a number that is a little more user friendly. :-) This also needed to work in a hosted environment Read More...
Book for Customization of Microsoft CRM - JavaScript Bible
As many of you know, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed. I always need help when working on my scripts. Date fields seem to kick me down every day. I can never seem to remember all of the ways I can get a date to become a month, year, minute, etc... Read More...
Microsoft CRM V3c Terminal Server Scripts Available
Michael Lu announced over on the CRM team blog that the new Terminal Server Scripts are available. These new terminal server scripts provide support for the CRM V3C Outlook Client’s new custom MAPI store. As before, these scripts are only supported on Read More...
Last chance for customers to save $100 when registering for Convergence 2007
Remind your customers that early-registration pricing for Convergence 2007 ends soon. Register by February 9, 2007 to save US$100 on registration fees. Have them use your Partner Sponsorship Identification number when registering so they can have a chance Read More...
RSS in Microsoft CRM's Demo Environment
I am in Seattle this week learning the latest and greatest around the technical stuff @ Microsoft. It is refreshing to be able to devote a week to just forgetting about partners and customers and everybody and focusing on learning some new things. :-) Read More...
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